ความตระหนักและการปฏิบัติเกี่ยวกับการตรวจค้นหามะเร็งปากมดลูกของพยาบาล โรงพยาบาลสามชุก

บทคัดย่อ

Objective : To investigate nurse at Samchuk hospital, as to their awareness and practices concerning cervical carcinoma screening and to correlate the relationship between other factors, awareness and practice of cervical carcinoma screening.

Study design : Cross-sectional descriptive study

Setting : Samchuk hospital.

Subjects : 90 nurses worked at Samchuk hospital, between 1 April 2008 and 1 June 2008.

Method : Initially, the questionnaires have been tested for validity and reliability and subjects will answer the questionnaires by themselves. Research assistants can explain them any difficulties with the questionnaires that might be occurred.

Statistical analysis : Chi-square test and Iogistie regression analysis of awareness and practice concerning cervical carcinoma screening

Results : In this study the total 90 subjects were on average 32.01 ± 6.36 years old. Most of them were registered nurse (73.2%) and the rest were technical nurse (26.8%). Regarding their educational background, 75.4% had Bachelor degree. The numbers of single nurse were 54.7% About 52.5% of the nurse had insufficient awareness of cervical carcinoma screening. Most of the nurse (63.1%) of the nurse had insufficient awareness of cervical carcinoma screening. Most of the nurse (63.1%) never had a Pep smear. The awareness was not significantly related to the practlee of cervieal carcinoma screening. The demographic factors which found significantly related to the practice of cervical carcinoma screening are duration of working, marital status, age of the first marriage and parity (P < 0.05). However, major factors were marital status, age of the first marriage and parity, when adjusted by logistic regression analysis.

Conclusions : The majority of nurse at Samchuk hospital had insufficient awareness and practice of cervical earcinoma screening. Marital status, age of the First marriage and parity were significantly related to practice of cervical carcinoma screening when adjusted by logistic regression analysis.